Check out this great series of lectures by Ivan Zatz, my friend since CUNY Sociology, now retired officemate at Pratt. The book I always thought he should write. I remember many conversations between him and Stanley Aronowitz about Lefebvre. #CriticalTheory #Sociology #Marx #CulturalStudies

#Philosophy #BlackStudies #CriticalTheory #AffectiveStrategy #SelfPreservation #Adorno #Horkheimer #Bourgeois #Emotions #Politics #Aesthetics

@hkohpeiss.bsky.social

Have a look at Henrike Kohpeiß's book, "Bourgeois Coldness," and see you on Monday! divided.online/all-books/bo...

In this short video, William Welstead introduces Beginning Literary Animal Studies, an accessible textbook for those studying human-animal relationships through #fiction #poetry #ethics and #CriticalTheory

Publishing later this month!

Watch now www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl1B...

#AnimalStudies

“School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.”

#BookSky #Books #CriticalTheory #EducationReform #SocialCritique

“The formation of discourse and the genealogy of knowledge have to be analyzed... the tactics and strategies of power.... unfold through locations, distributions, divisions, controls of territories, organizations of domains that could well constitute a kind of geopolitics" #CriticalTheory #Foucault

Wagner To Sleaford Mods: The Frankfurt School On Music In 10 Songs
#CriticalTheory #Music #FrankfurtSchool #Adorno
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

[Archive]
'Continuity and Discontinuity in Aronowitz’s Critiques of Sociology, Science, and Marxism"
for the meeting “Stanley Aronowitz and the Labors of Theory”
CUNY Graduate Center, April 13 and 14, 2017
#HistSTM #CriticalTheory #Sociology #CulturalStudies
node801.blogspot.com/2017/04/cont...

Book review: A Hopeful Political Imagination, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera

Reviewed by Costas Douzinas

Free to read on the website: thesiseleven.com/2026/09/18/b...

#BookReview #PoliticalImagination #PoliticalTheory #CriticalTheory #DecolonialThought #Utopianism #SocialJustice #Philosophy

[Blog Archive]
Theodor Adorno on "...the most compelling of the motivations which induced me to take up sociology."
#CriticalTheory #Sociology
node801.blogspot.com/2013/11/theo...

Book review: Why should we still read Max Weber?

In this review, Harry Blatterer explores Michael Symonds’ Why Should We Still Read Max Weber?

Read the review: thesiseleven.com/2026/09/15/b...

#MaxWeber #BookReview #Sociology #SocialTheory #CriticalTheory #Modernity #Disenchantment

Are you media literate? #MediaTheory #MediaLiteracy #CriticalTheory #StuartHall #Communication #Politics

The Works of Henri Lefebvre: Four Lectures
Iván Zatz-Díaz

Oct. 11 — Metaphilosophy
Nov. 15 — Critique of Everyday Life
Dec. 6 — The Production of Space
Jan. 10 — Critique vol. 3 and Rhythmanalysis

#CriticalTheory #Sociology #Marx
marxedproject.org/event/four-l...

Media Theory: Chomsky's Five Filters of the Mass Media Machine - Manufacturing Consent #Media #MediaStudies #MediaTheory #CriticalTheory

[Archive]
RACE AFTER DARWIN [for Devin Griffiths and Deanna K. Kreisel, eds. 2023. After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge University Press.]
#HistSTM #HistSci #CriticalTheory
[PDF] www.academia.edu/attachments/...

25 years later....
Who are the "Enemies of Civilization"? (October 2001)
Remarks prepared for "09.11.01: Responses and Responsibilities" -Pratt Institute, October, 2001.
#911 #NYC #CriticalTheory #CulturalStudies
www.academia.edu/attachments/...

"Defending academic freedom requires attention to architectures of recognition through which scholarly worth and truth are organized." (Ahrens/Pfister, 2026)

Interesting new paper about #AcademicFreedom in The Accounting Review.

#HigherEd
#CriticalTheory

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